What? Don't get good at teaching? Yes, my friends! In this episode, we talk about how allowing yourself to make mistakes, and always learning is the secret to being a good teacher. So take a big sigh of relief and enjoy not being good at teaching :)

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Do you label your classes, "level one" or things like advanced, beginner? This is a common practice in the yoga world and in this episode, we talk about how that might actually be doing more harm than good for yourself and those coming to your classes.

But don't worry, we don't leave you there! We also look at some helpful ways you can update the way you label or what you call your classes.

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You're not alone if you've ever thought that you aren't a good enough teacher if you can't do all the poses. But is it true?

Absolutely not!

You don't have to be able to do all the poses in order to teach them and this episode dives into all the reasons why. We also take time to explore what a good yoga teacher is and isn't.

Enjoy this episode that will remind you how amazing and perfect you already are as a teacher!

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Your host: Brea Johnson, lead teacher and founder of Heart + Bones Yoga

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Welcome to season 3 of the Move with Love podcast! This season we dive deeper into all the things in your teacher training that didn't prepare you for the real world of teaching yoga.

Our first episode we go right to the heart of why so many yoga teachers have imposter syndrome, struggle with confidence or feel like they need to look a certain way to be a yoga teacher. And here's a hint... it's not you, it's the yoga industry!

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Your host: Brea Johnson, lead teacher and founder of Heart + Bones Yoga

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Many people experience chronic pain and illness and yoga can be a supportive pain management tool. As a yoga teacher, there will be people who come to your classes with chronic pain or illness and but do you know what to do? How can you offer a practice that acknowledges their needs in a loving and supportive way?

In this episode, you'll gain tools and insights for how to integrate accessible practices into your classes to support all bodies.

I talk with yoga teacher, Astrid van Rens who teaches those with chronic pain and has a lived experience of chronic pain and fatigue. From her personal and professional experiences, she has a wealth of knowledge to share with yoga teacher and those with chronic pain to build supportive yoga practices into your classes.

About Astrid van Rens:

Astrid lives in the Netherlands and has been teaching yoga for over a decade. She teaches and practices yoga from a lived experience of chronic pain and fatigue.

In the first years of teaching she began to experience more and more physical symptoms and fatigue. She even wondered if teaching would still be possible. She also saw that there were many people who stopped taking classes because it didn't match their physical abilities. Over the years she found ways and tools to adapt yoga practices to her personal needs and the needs of people who came to her classes.

Since 2013 Astrid has been offering classes to people living with illness, chronic pain and fatigue. In 2016 she started one of the first online yoga schools in Holland with online (live) classes. Offering mindful movement in a sustainable, accessible and gentle way.

Follow Astrid on Instagram: @deonlineyogaschool

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Many people experience chronic pain and illness and yoga can be supportive and a pain management tool. As a yoga teacher, there will be people who come to your classes with chronic pain or illness and but do you know what to do? How can you offer a practice that acknowledges their needs in a loving and supportive way?

In this episode, you'll gain tools and insights for how to integrate accessible practices into your classes to support all bodies.

I talk with yoga teacher, Astrid van Rens who teaches those with chronic pain and has a lived experience of chronic pain and fatigue. From her personal and professional experiences, she has a wealth of knowledge to share with yoga teacher and those with chronic pain to build supportive yoga practices into your classes.

About Astrid van Rens:

Astrid lives in the Netherlands and has been teaching yoga for over a decade. She teaches and practices yoga from a lived experience of chronic pain and fatigue.

In the first years of teaching she began to experience more and more physical symptoms and fatigue. She even wondered if teaching would still be possible. She also saw that there were many people who stopped taking classes because it didn't match their physical abilities. Over the years she found ways and tools to adapt yoga practices to her personal needs and the needs of people who came to her classes.

Since 2013 Astrid has been offering classes to people living with illness, chronic pain and fatigue. In 2016 she started one of the first online yoga schools in Holland with online (live) classes. Offering mindful movement in a sustainable, accessible and gentle way.

Follow Astrid on Instagram: @deonlineyogaschool

Website

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Want to try this playful, loving and accessible approach to yoga for yourself (and to inspire your practice and teaching?)

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You might think that teaching accessible yoga means teaching people in chairs or those with injuries. But when you teach with the intention to create classes that everyone can feel good in then you're teaching accessible yoga.

And yet, the cues you use, if you use props or not, and the language in your classes might not actually work for everyone that attends. So what really is "accessible" yoga and how do we incorporate that mindset into our classes?

In this powerful and insightful episode, Kristine Sofiedal shares her experience as a yoga teacher and practitioner in a larger body. Her story and journey will inspire you deeply and help you see how you teach yoga in a whole new light. A must listen!

About Kristine Sofiedal

Most of my life I have had a strained relationship with my body, until I found yoga. Yoga was my gateway into body acceptance, body positivity and self-love. It was where I found others that looked like me, that moved with joy and looked confident in their bodies. It sparked something in me, and I found myself becoming more and more accepting of myself and my body. I started to move in ways that felt good to me, making the poses fit me and my body where I was and not feeling I had to hide. But the people I found so inspiring were only available on social media. I was the only one that looked like me in yoga classes and I had to research and find my own way to make a lot of poses more accessible to me.

As a teacher, I want others to see bodies like theirs and I want to teach other yoga teachers how to make poses more accessible to more bodies. EveryBODY can do yoga, but not everyBODY can do all yoga. In Formfull Yoga classes, workshops and trainings (coming in 2022) props play a leading role. They are NOT used because we can't do something but used to create better access to our bodies and to create more space for moving with loving-kindness within our bodies.

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When you know who you teach and how you can help them, it makes your teaching so much easier. We talk to Carol Robbins, a yoga and Pilates teacher who has found success through her clear niche as a teacher. Carol focuses mainly on healthy and dynamic aging and we talk all about how to find your niche, how that provides a clearer roadmap for your sequencing of classes and easier marketing.

Not only do we talk about the importance of niches for yoga and movement teachers, but Carol also shares a ton of interesting information about healthy aging and how that knowledge sets the people in our classes up for success, no matter what age they are.

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